Please join us as we partner with NIRI for this fireside chat luncheon with Mellody Hobson, President of Ariel Investments, and Jennifer DiGrazia, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations at Ariel Investments.

Plan to attend the conversation about leadership in the boardroom featuring Sue Kronick, currently on the board of American Airlines Group, Hyatt Hotels Corporation and a Trustee of the Knight Foundation, and Ron Williams, who currently serves as a director of American Express, The Boeing Company, Johnson & Johnson and Envision Healthcare. The moderator will be Frank Scruggs who serves on the boards of SunTrust Banks, Inc., Guidewell Mutual Holding Corporation and its subsidiary Florida Blue, and the NACD Florida Chapter. Northern Trust will host this event.

Please join us for a very special program covering the intersection of Government and Corporate ERM and Cybersecurity challenges. Art House is Connecticut's first Chief Cybersecurity Risk Officer and led the development of the stateâ€™s first comprehensive cybersecurity Strategy. The strategy was published in July 2017 and is now in the process of being turned into an action plan. Art will provide an overview of the strategy and the cooperation needed between government and business to improve our collective security and resilience. Sanjeev Handa will also be joining us. Sanjeev is an independent board director for Fitch ratings. Our program will be facilitated by Bob Mannarino, an NACD CT board member and our resident cybersecurity advocate.
The Connecticut Cybersecurity Strategy is available through the following webpage: http://portal.ct.gov/connecticut-cybersecurity-resource-page

With our country in a period of political polarization not seen perhaps since the years of the Vietnam War, the utterances of a senior executive as well as his/her participation on a politically sensitive advisory board or other activity, which may formerly have been fairly innocuous, can take on an outsized importance and have potentially serious consequences for a companyâ€™s brand, relationships with customers, vendors and employees, and its enterprise value. In addition, the erstwhile noncontroversial policies of a company about how to conduct its business may touch upon â€œlitmus testâ€ issues that can be political landmines.
How can boards deal proactively with these sensitive issues, and what principles should guide them? How do company codes of ethics, whistleblower hotlines, and other tools of management and governance relate to these issues? Join our panel of experts as we explore an extremely topical â€“ and complicated! â€“ issue.

Our panel will discuss the role of the board in establishing, building and maintaining a company's culture, how to best work with management leadership and how to recognize when the culture may look and sound good on paper but may be losing its relevance. The panel will also discuss the linkages of the corporate culture to the reward and recognition systems, its business strategy as well the company's operating style and reputation - internally and externally.

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